Roomaa 7
1 Yaa obboloota, ani warra seera beekanitti nan dubbadhaatii; seerri nama tokko irratti taayitaa kan qabaatu hamma namichi sun lubbuun jiru qofa akka taʼe isin hin beektanii ree?
Are you ignorant, brothers—for to those knowing law I speak—that the law has lordship over the man as long as he lives?
2 Dubartiin heerumte tokko hamma inni lubbuudhaan jirutti seeraan dhirsa isheetti hidhamteerti; yoo dhirsi ishee duʼe garuu seera fuudhaa fi heerumaa sana irraa hiikamteerti.
For the married woman to the living husband has been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she has been free from the law of the husband;
3 Kanaafuu utuu dhirsi ishee lubbuudhaan jiruu yoo nama biraatti heerumte isheen ejjituu jedhamti. Yoo dhirsi ishee duʼe garuu waan seera sana irraa hiikamteef yoo nama biraatti heerumte illee ejjitu miti.
so then, the husband being alive, she will be called an adulteress if she may become another man’s; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man’s.
4 Kanaafuu yaa obboloota ko, isinis akkasuma karaa dhagna Kiristoosiin seeraaf duutaniirtu; kunis akka isin kan biraa, kan isa warra duʼan keessaa kaafame sanaa taataniif; kun immoo akka nu Waaqaaf ija naqannuuf.
So that, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another’s, who was raised up out of the dead, that we might bear fruit to God;
5 Yeroo nu akka namummaa cubbamaatti jiraachaa turretti, hawwiin cubbuu kan seeraan kakaafame sun akka nu duʼaaf ija naqannuuf dhagna keenya keessatti hojjechaa ture.
for when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, that [are] through the Law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to death;
6 Amma garuu waan duraan nu hidhee ture sanaaf duʼuudhaan seera irraa hiikamneerra; kunis akka seera moofaa barreeffame sana jalatti tajaajilluuf utuu hin taʼin akka jireenya Hafuuraa haaraa sanaan tajaajilluuf.
and now we have ceased from the Law, that being dead in which we were held, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.
7 Egaa maal jenna ree? Seerri cubbuudhaa? Gonkumaa akkas miti! Garuu ani utuu seeraan taʼuu baatee cubbuun maal akka taʼe hin beeku ture. Utuu seerri “Hin hawwin” jechuu baatee ani silaa hawwiin maal akka taʼe dhugumaan hin beeku ture.
What, then, will we say? The Law [is] sin? Let it not be! But I did not know sin except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the Law had not said:
8 Cubbuun garuu carraa ajajni argamsiiseen hawwii hamaa gosa hundaa na keessatti uume. Lafa seerri hin jirretti cubbuun duʼaadhaatii.
“You will not covet”; and sin having received an opportunity, through the command, worked in me all covetousness—for apart from law sin is dead.
9 Ani dur seera malee jiraachaan ture; yommuu ajajni dhufetti garuu cubbuun ni bayyanatte; anis nan duʼe.
And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, sin revived, and I died;
10 Ajajni jireenya fida jedhamee eegame sunis akka duʼa natti fide nan hubadhe.
and the command that [is] for life, this was found by me for death;
11 Cubbuun carraa ajajni argamsiiseen na gowwoomse; ajajuma sanaanis na ajjeese.
for sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, deceived me, and through it, slew [me],
12 Kanaafuu seerri qulqulluu dha; ajajni sunis qulqulluu dha; qajeelaa dha; gaarii dhas.
so that the Law, indeed, [is] holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good.
13 Egaa waan gaarii sanatu duʼa natti taʼee ree? Gonkumaa akkas miti! Cubbuunis akka cubbuutti akka ilaalamuuf, akka karaa ajajaatiin ittuma caalee cubbuu taʼuufis cubbuun karaa waan gaarii sanaatiin duʼa natti fide.
That which is good then, has it become death to me? Let it not be! But sin, that it might appear sin, through the good, working death to me, that sin might become exceedingly sinful through the command.
14 Nus akka seerri sun seera hafuuraa taʼe ni beekna; ani garuu nama foonii kan akkuma garbaatti cubbuutti gurguramee dha.
For we have known that the Law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by sin;
15 Ani waanan hojjedhu hin beeku. Ani waanan jibbun hojjedha malee waanan hojjechuu barbaadu hin hojjedhuutii.
for that which I work, I do not acknowledge; for not what I will, this I practice, but what I hate, this I do.
16 Ani erga waanan hojjechuu hin barbaanne hojjedhee, akka seerri sun gaarii taʼe walii nan gala.
And if what I do not will, this I do, I consent to the Law that [it is] good,
17 Yoos, siʼachi cubbuu na keessa jiraatutu waan kana hojjeta malee ana miti.
and now it is no longer I that work it, but sin dwelling in me,
18 Na keessa jechuunis namummaa koo cubbamaa keessa akka wanni gaariin tokko iyyuu hin jirre nan beeka. Ani waan gaarii hojjechuu nan hawwa; garuu hojjechuu hin dandaʼu.
for I have known that there does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, good: for to will is present with me, and I do not find to work that which is right,
19 Wanti ani hojjedhu waan hamaa ani hojjechuu hin barbaanne malee waan gaarii ani hojjechuu barbaadu mitiitii.
for the good that I will, I do not do; but the evil that I do not will, this I practice.
20 Egaa ani waanan hojjechuu hin barbaanne yoon hojjedhe, siʼachi cubbuu na keessa jiraatu sanatu waan kana hojjeta malee ana miti.
And if what I do not will, this I do, it is no longer I that work it, but sin that is dwelling in me.
21 Kanaafuu akka seerri sun hojjechaa jiru nan hubadha; yommuu ani waan gaarii hojjechuu barbaadu hamminni na biratti argama.
I find, then, the law, that when I desire to do what is right, the evil is present with me,
22 Ani keessa namummaa kootti seera Waaqaattin nan gammadaatii;
for I delight in the Law of God according to the inward man,
23 ani garuu utuu seerri biraa seera qalbii koo wajjin kutaa dhagna koo keessatti wal lolee seera cubbuu kan kutaa dhagna koo keessa jiruuf na boojiʼuu nan arga.
and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin that [is] in my members.
24 Ani nama gadadamaa akkamii ti! Dhagna duʼu kana jalaa eenyutu na baasa?
A wretched man I [am]! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
25 Karaa Gooftaa keenya Yesuus Kiristoosiin galanni Waaqaaf haa taʼu! Kanaafuu ani mataan koo qalbii kootiin garbicha seera Waaqaa ti; namummaa koo cubbamaadhaan garuu ani garbicha seera cubbuu ti.
I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord; so then, I myself indeed serve the Law of God with the mind, and with the flesh, the law of sin.
